Dichotomies in Ontology-Mediated Querying with the Guarded Fragment

Hernich, Andre, Lutz, Carsten, Papacchini, Fabio ORCID: 0000-0002-0310-7378 and Wolter, Frank (2017) Dichotomies in Ontology-Mediated Querying with the Guarded Fragment. In: SIGMOD/PODS'17: International Conference on Management of Data, 2017-5-14 - 2017-5-19, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Abstract

We study the complexity of ontology-mediated querying when ontologies are formulated in the guarded fragment of first-order logic (GF). Our general aim is to classify the data complexity on the level of ontologies where query evaluation w.r.t. an ontology O is considered to be in PTime if all (unions of conjunctive) queries can be evaluated in PTime w.r.t. O and coNP-hard if at least one query is coNP-hard w.r.t. O. We identify several large and relevant fragments of GF that enjoy a dichotomy between PTime and coNP, some of them additionally admitting a form of counting. In fact, almost all ontologies in the BioPortal repository fall into these fragments or can easily be rewritten to do so. We then establish a variation of Ladner's Theorem on the existence of NP-intermediate problems and use this result to show that for other fragments, there is provably no such dichotomy. Again for other fragments (such as full GF), establishing a dichotomy implies the Feder-Vardi conjecture on the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems. We also link these results to Datalog-rewritability and study the decidability of whether a given ontology enjoys PTime query evaluation, presenting both positive and negative results.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ontology-Based Data Access, Query Answering, Dichotomies
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2017 08:03
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:14
DOI:	10.1145/3034786.3056108
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3006270